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...opportunity to make use of the Phillips Brooks Housing List in looking for an apartment for a married couple who are friends of mine. The couple happens to be Negro; I am not. In checking into the various names on the list, I would approach a landlord or superintendent inquiring as to whether or not they still had vacancies, to which the answer was often affirmative. My next question was whether or not these people would rent to Negroes, and more often than not the answer was negative...
...deal was made at 3 o'clock in the morning in Chase Manhattan Bank's downtown office. After a night of dickering with Equitable Life Assurance Society, Shor's landlord and owner of the surrounding area, Webb & Knapp called in Shor, gave him his check. Shor, whose memory goes back a long time, told old friend and New York Post Columnist Jimmy Cannon: "Being paid off at 3 in the morning, I felt like a bootlegger. That's when the old mob guys used to do their business...
...Casals Festival scheduled as a yearly event in Puerto Rico, it seems unlikely that the master will ever again make music on such a grand scale in Prades. He no longer has a residence there, nor is he entirely welcome in the hamlet he made famous. This year his landlord jacked up the rent of the cottage he always occupied. And the cellist himself was a little difficult. "If M. Casals met God in the street," remarked a town official, "there is some doubt as to who would take precedence." Offered an apartment in nearby Molitg-les-Bains. Casals will...
...people of Prades are unlikely to forget the most distinguished of their adopted sons wherever he may be. Casals' former landlord has not yet removed from the walls of the cottage its widely famed label-"El Cant dels Ocells" (in Catalan, The Song of the Birds). It is the name of the popular folk air with which Cellist Casals, playing alone, will end this year's festival just as he ended all the others...
From his new apartment building, Norman Tishman could look down Wilshire Boulevard toward five 13-story Tishman office buildings and the site of a projected 22-story Tishman office building in downtown Los Angeles. Such hustling has in the last few years made Tishman the biggest single landlord in Southern California, added to the firm's reputation as a pace setter for real estate men in other cities as well...